New links in dreams from Obama’s father

Hussein is generally quiet and occasionally speaks softly, but as he moves from a distance, he resembles the US presidential candidate. George Hussein Onyango Obama hardly talks about his world famous half-brother. He also attends part-time training in Buru Buru, not very far from where he stays.

Hours after an Italian newspaper broke the story about the youngest Obama, the Huruma neighbourhood became a beehive of activity, with many international media correspondents fighting for the chance to get an interview.

Our chat was interrupted, and soon Hussein became busy. He started giving appointments, saying:. “I can’t talk now, may be at 3pm,” he told us in the morning. He had given the same time to another international correspondent.

At 3pm, we found several journalists waiting, but Hussein was out for lunch. An hour later, his phone was picked by a newly acquired aid and we were told he was busy.

Busy or not, Hussein has acquired some celebrity status. He may just be on the way to the popularity and attention his grandmother in Kogello has. He visited his grandmother just a month ago.

“I do not live on less than a dollar a month,” he said in reaction to a story in a foreign newspaper that had made the suggestion. Though leaving in considerable humility, the last of the Hussein Obama Snr’s children says he is comfortable with the life he is leading and reads mischief in the author’s decision to paint him as living in misery.

“Life’s good. I live with my cousin and niece in our family house in Huruma,” he said. The motor vehicle engineering student said he fully supported his half-brother’s presidential pursuit and wished him well. He has never been to the US.

“I wish him all the best in the campaigns,” said the soft spoken man.

George was born to Obama Snr and Jael six months before his father died in a car accident in Kenya. Jael has since remarried a Frenchman and settled in Atlanta.

George maintains close contacts with his mother and they talk often. But he last talked to the presidential candidate in 2006 when he visited Kenya.